Today
Monday February 9 2026
- Day of the year
- 40/ 365
- Week
- 72,026
- Days left
- 32511%
- Moon
- 48%Last quarter
Today is Monday, February 9, 2026. It is day 40 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 325 remain, and 11% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 7.
What's celebrated on this date
No United Nations international day falls on this date.
Coming up
- February 11International Day of Women and Girls in Science
- February 13World Radio Day
- February 20World Day of Social Justice
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- Anne Catherine EmmerichGerman Augustinian canoness, mystic, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist (1774-1824)
- Saint ApolloniaChristian female saint and martyr
- MaronSyriac Christian Monk
- TeiloWelsh bishop and saint
- Faustino Míguez GonzálezSpanish presbyter (1831-1925)
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Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 06:57
- Sunset
- 17:23
- Length of day
- 10h 26m+2 min vs yesterday
- Solar noon
- 12:10
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Winter
began on December 21, 2025
Next season
Spring — 39 days, March 20, 2026 (March equinox)
Public holidays — United States
Not a public holiday in the United States.
Next public holiday : Washington's Birthday — February 16, 2026
National holidays only. Regions, provinces and Länder add their own.
Moon
Last quarter
Illumination : 48%
Moon age : 21.9 days
- Next full moon
- March 3, 2026
- Next new moon
- February 17, 2026
Astrology
Today's zodiac sign
Aquarius
until February 19, 2026 — Pisces
Zodiac dates are an astrological convention, not the Sun's actual position among the constellations. The astronomy above is measured; this is not.
On this day in history
1621
Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation. Wikipedia
1775
American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion. Wikipedia
1849
The new Roman Republic is declared. Wikipedia
1861
American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Provisional Confederate Congress at Montgomery, Alabama. Wikipedia
1893
Verdi's last opera, Falstaff, premieres at La Scala, Milan. Wikipedia
1943
World War II: Pacific War: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal. Wikipedia
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1964
The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a record-setting audience of 73 million viewers across the United States. Wikipedia
1971
Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third human Moon landing. Wikipedia
1991
Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Voters in Lithuania vote for independence from the Soviet Union. Wikipedia
1996
Copernicium is discovered by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov et al. Wikipedia
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Births and deaths
Born on this day February 9
- 1773William Henry Harrison, American general and politician, 9th President of the United States (died 1841)
- 1775Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician and academic (died 1856)
- 1781Johann Baptist von Spix, German biologist and explorer (died 1826)
- 1846Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and businessman, founded Maybach (died 1929)
- 1909Dean Rusk, American colonel and politician, 54th United States Secretary of State (died 1994)
- 1910Jacques Monod, French biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1976)
- 1940J. M. Coetzee, South African-Australian novelist, essayist, and linguist, Nobel Prize laureateturns 86 years
- 1943Joseph Stiglitz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureateturns 83 years
Died on this day February 9
- 1199Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shōgun (born 1147)aged 52 years
- 1588Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz, Spanish admiral (born 1526)aged 61 years
- 1675Gerrit Dou, Dutch painter (born 1613)aged 62 years
- 1874Jules Michelet, French historian, philosopher, and academic (born 1798)aged 76 years
- 1891Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (born 1819)aged 72 years
- 1957Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and politician, Regent of Hungary (born 1868)aged 89 years
- 1994Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1934)aged 60 years
- 2001Herbert A. Simon, American political scientist, economist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)aged 85 years
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The day in words
In New York the sun rises at 06:57 and sets at 17:23, giving 10h 26m of daylight — 2 minutes more than yesterday. It has been winter since December 21, 2025; spring opens in 39 days, on March 20, 2026 (March equinox).
The moon is at last quarter, 48% illuminated. The next full moon falls on March 3, 2026 and the next new moon on February 17, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches February 9 to Anne Catherine Emmerich, Saint Apollonia and Maron.
No United Nations international day falls on February 9. The next one on the calendar is International Day of Women and Girls in Science, on February 11.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation (1621); American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion (1775). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
William Henry Harrison was born on February 9, 1773; Minamoto no Yoritomo died on February 9, 1199.
319 days remain until Christmas and 326 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — February 9 falls under the sign of Aquarius.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 11%
- of the year elapsed
- 319
- until Christmas
- 326
- until New Year
- 750
- until the next 29 February
2026 — Common year (365 days)
Work with dates
Sources
Every block on this page names where its data comes from. Nothing here is generated when the source is silent.
- United Nations — International Days— What's celebrated today
- Wikidata (P841)— Saints and name days · CC0 1.0
- Wikipedia (en)— On this day in history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26